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The Tourism Imaginary and Pilgrimages to the Edges of the World / ed. by Nieves Herrero, Sharon R. Roseman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 44Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845415235
  • 9781845415242
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G156.5.H47 T694 2015
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Galicia's Finisterre and Coast of Death -- 3. At the End of the Road: Refl ections on Finistère, Land's End, France -- 4. Land's End, Cornwall, England -- 5. Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland -- 6. North Cape: In the Land of the Midnight Sun -- 7. Where North America Ends -- 8. Finis Terrae: The End-of-the- World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) -- Index
Summary: This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land's End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Galicia's Finisterre and Coast of Death -- 3. At the End of the Road: Refl ections on Finistère, Land's End, France -- 4. Land's End, Cornwall, England -- 5. Pilgrimage to the Edge: Lough Derg and the Moral Geography of Europe and Ireland -- 6. North Cape: In the Land of the Midnight Sun -- 7. Where North America Ends -- 8. Finis Terrae: The End-of-the- World Imaginary in Tierra del Fuego (Argentina) -- Index

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This book examines how the growth of tourism in locations that have historically been considered geographically remote plays a major role in the consolidation and transformation of often longstanding and powerful cultural imaginaries about 'the edges of the world'. The contributors examine the attraction of the sublime, remoteness, continental border-points, and the dangers of the sea in Finisterre (or Fisterra) in Galicia (Spain); Finistère in Brittany (France); Land's End, Cornwall (England); Lough Derg (Ireland); Nordkapp or North Cape (Norway); Cape Spear, Newfoundland (Canada); and Tierra del Fuego (Argentina). While those travelling to these locations can be seen to be conducting some form of religious or secular pilgrimage, those who live in them have long contended with the implications of economic and political marginalization within global political economies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021)